Not all hybrid clouds are created equal.

Independent certifications can make comparing complex cloud providers easier than you thought.

The challenges hybrid cloud models are designed to address are well understood. Not all workloads and applications are suitable for cloud environments. Some types of data or industry verticals operate in highly regulated environments that may make shared public clouds inappropriate. Stretched designs are flexible and protect you from proprietary lock-in technologies. And they’re uniquely placed to help free time, money and talent at a time when IT budgets are falling in real terms and talent costs are growing 4X inflation.

It’s little surprise that over 8-in-10 Australian organisations are opting for a hybrid cloud design as a result.

Secure Hybrid Cloud.

Hybrid Clouds – for all their benefits – can be potentially vulnerable to security threats due to their highly distributed nature. Increasingly, as trends like containerisation and serverless design accelerate, cloud solutions are becoming more and more abstracted and more and more complicated. While this can have other consequences (like more complex and variable billing) it can also make implementing a complete defence-in-depth security model challenging.

Your cloud services partner selection is crucial to ensuring you can enjoy hybrid capability upsides while being protected against potential security downsides.

The answer is letting independently assessed certifications qualify the right hybrid cloud vendor for you.

Each vertical has its own unique requirements e.g. LaunchTM Health Cloud was launched to deliver a compliant solution for healthcare organisations working with the requirements of the Department of Human Services. While it’s strongly recommended you discuss your specific requirements with a trusted partner, the following certifications provide an objective framework for assessing cloud services providers:

We can make these certifications available on request and suggest they should represent the absolute minimum standard for any potential hybrid cloud partner.

Macquarie Cloud Services

We’re different. For over 18 years, we’ve leveraged our own Australian Data Centres, NV1 certified engineers over here, not over there, and our own own Telco and security capabilities to deliver hybrid cloud solutions designed for you, not for us. It’s why we’re supporting over 42% of all federal government agencies, and leading organisation from the University of Technology Sydney to Westpac. Your security is too important to be left to API’s, portals and tickets. Talk to our cloud security architects about what these certifications can mean for you, and how they can be integrated in your total defence-in-depth model. Because it’s about technology. And people.